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discrimination
Forms:
- gender discrimination
- racial discrimination
- discrimination based on sexual orientation
marital status NOT included in forms of discrimination Complaints:
- must be made within 45 days of alleged act
Management:
- a physician when faced with a request that seems discriminatory
- ensure that the patient is stable
- assess decision-making capacity
- determine the reason for the request
- only then decide whether to accomodate, negotiate, offer transfer or set limits of acceptable behavior [2]
* patients do not have the right to demand clinically irrelevant characteristics of their clinician(s) [2]
References
- Veterans Administration
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 19.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2021